{"id":833,"date":"2017-09-27T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/steamworld_dig_2_has_had_the_biggest_launch_in_the_ips_history"},"modified":"2017-09-27T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T16:45:00","slug":"steamworld-dig-2-has-had-the-biggest-launch-in-the-ips-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/27\/steamworld-dig-2-has-had-the-biggest-launch-in-the-ips-history\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamWorld Dig 2 Has Had the Biggest Launch in the IP&#8217;s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Dig 2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/steamworld_dig_2_has_had_the_biggest_launch_in_the_ips_history\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/steamworld_dig_2_has_had_the_biggest_launch_in_the_ips_history\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dig 2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_dig_2\">SteamWorld Dig 2<\/a><\/strong> arrived recently; it&#8217;s certainly one of the most high-profile download arrivals on Switch to date, and we think it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_dig_2\">rather brilliant<\/a>. It&#8217;s bigger and more ambitious than its predecessor, and in some ways reflects the growing confidence of Image &amp; Form that started to show with a vengeance in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/steamworld_heist\">SteamWorld Heist<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case it&#8217;s had a successful launch, with the game now also on PC and PS4 \/ Vita as well as the Switch. It&#8217;s been doing well in the eShop charts, too, sitting top or near the top in various countries.<\/p>\n<p>The developer has now confirmed in a press release that Dig 2 has delivered the IP&#8217;s best launch to date.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Players are having a blast as well, with the\u00a0<strong>98% approval rating on Steam<\/strong>\u00a0being the obvious proof. Everyone&#8217;s praise results in impressive sales; I&#8217;m happy to announce that SWD2 is\u00a0<strong>the biggest launch in SteamWorld history<\/strong>, selling faster than any game we&#8217;ve ever made before it. On Switch it&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>topping the charts\u00a0<\/strong>in as good as every country. In less than a week we&#8217;ve already earned back most of the game&#8217;s total development budget. Twenty or so people for almost a year and a half&#8230; You do the math!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s doing pretty darn well, then. Have you dug into this one yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SteamWorld Dig 2 arrived recently; it&#8217;s certainly one of the most high-profile download arrivals on Switch to date, and we think it&#8217;s rather brilliant. It&#8217;s bigger and more ambitious than its predecessor, and in some ways reflects the growing confidence of Image &amp; Form that started to show with a vengeance in SteamWorld Heist. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}